Quotes About Friendship

What he meant was that he had fixed some vegetarian slop with lentils and bean-curd lumps and weird-tasting fake cheese, and that we were welcome to have a crack at choking some of it down. So Sam Hellerman hightailed it out of there. Lucky bastard.

much as we like to think of ourselves as isolated nomads bumping up against each other from time to time, we are our relationships

I don't view you as a market segment. I view you as my partner, an individual reader, a friend as complex and maybe even as conflicted, as I am. Why should either of us "fit" anywhere?

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Jesus desires friends, not servants. He desires love, not servitude. In the cold temple of Jerusalem, God was merely served. But in the warmth of the Bethany home, He was befriended and cherished.

MORITZ: Melchior, do you agree that a human being's sense of shame is just a product of his education? MELCHIOR: It seems to me it must be deeply rooted in human nature. Imagine you had to undress completely in front of your best friend. You'd only do it if he did it at the same time.

Old friends are quick to turn on you once you no longer support the Agenda.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. -Roosevelt to Churchill

Of making many books there is no end—So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friendWhen only one is shining in the sky.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Moon-faced Chet Morton, who was much fonder of eating and relaxing than he was of dangerous adventures, was constantly bemoaning the Hardys' habit of becoming involved in crime cases. But the stocky youth was a loyal pal and could always be depended on in a tight spot.

Then Joe turned on the record player. Chet, usually bashful with girls, asked Mary Todd to dance, and soon the living room was a blur of motion as the young people gyrated to the latest steps.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Dolphins] produce signature whistles, which are high-pitched sounds with a modulation that is unique for each individual [...]. Females keep the same melody for the rest of their lives, whereas males adjust theirs to those of their closest buddies, so that the calls within a male alliance sound alike. (p. 262)

Their bonding over birds went way beyond the way John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev bonded over Pushinka, a little dog that the Soviet leader sent to the White House.

And then there was our Siamese cat, Sarah, who had been adopted as a kitten by our big tomcat, Diego, who would lick and clean her, let her knead his tummy as if she were nursing, and sleep with her. For about a decade they were best buddies, until Diego died of old age. Even though Sarah was younger and in perfect health, she stopped eating and died two months after Diego for no reason that the veterinarian could determine.

Mamá, puedes pedirme lo que sea, pero no que me coma a mi mejor amigo.

Más vale ser un animal de un compañia que un animal para carne.

Perdican era el fruto de las entrañas de Rosette, que era de mi propiedad, así que me correspondía a mí tomar la decisión. A la fuerza, voté por la muerte (...) Tenía la sensación de estar traicionando a mi primer amigo del alma.

Faces are all important. Without faces it would be impossible to identify our friends. If we had to recognize people by their bodies, we could only tell men from women. With career women, in many cases this would be impossible.

What good is sitting alone in your room?Come hear the music play;Life is a cabaret, old chum,Come to the cabaret.

One of our friends asked Fred about his thoughts on heaven when she was taking a walk with him on a Nantucket beach a few years ago. I'll bet there was a twinkle in his eye when he told her, "Oh, I think there will be a lot of people surprised to see who's there!" Fred would never want anyone to think they might not be worthy of getting through heaven's gate. His God loved everyone—just the way they were!

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.